By Jason Ounpraseuth & Brandon Thurston
WWE received a $6 million site fee for WrestleMania 42 from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), according to public records obtained by POST Wrestling. That’s $1 million more than last year’s site fee.
This is in addition to the $4,314,821 tax credit WWE received approval for from the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development.
That brings the total amount of expected incentives to around $10 million. As part of WWE’s application for the tax credit, the company stated it expects to spend just over $35 million on the WrestleMania events and surrounding Raw and SmackDown tapings.
A public records request was made to the LVCVA in February. The agency produced records on Tuesday evening, just after WrestleMania 42 events were completed.
The $6 million fee, termed a “sponsor fee” in the contract between the parties, includes WrestleMania 42, as well as a guarantee of a minimum 300,000 square feet of convention space to hold WWE World and the Superstore.
As part of the terms, WWE agreed to display LVCVA’s logo and name on media advertisements and allow LVCVA to participate in press conferences and other promotional events. The terms also included a suite at Allegiant Stadium for each night of WrestleMania, 40 lower-level section tickets, 10 tickets for each day of WWE World, and 20 tickets for lower-level sections for SmackDown, NXT, and Raw.
WWE received a $5 million site fee for last year’s WrestleMania in Las Vegas, along with $4,240,456 in tax credits, as part of what TKO President Mark Shapiro calls “Financial Incentive Packages.”
Brandon Thurston reported for Wrestlenomics in May last year that WrestleMania 42 would no longer be held in New Orleans. Public records showed that the sponsor agreement between LVCVA and Event Services LLC, a subsidiary of WWE, was finalized on Aug. 21, 2025. It’s unclear how incentives, if the events had happened in New Orleans, would have compared. Representatives for the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation and Louisiana’s Motion Picture Production Program didn’t immediately respond to requests from POST. Louisiana’s program appears to be roughly twice as generous as Nevada’s, though the site fee may have been a major factor in WWE’s decision.
WWE and the LVCVA did not immediately respond to requests for comment from POST Wrestling.
Thurston filed a petition in the Nevada district court in August seeking to compel the LVCVA to release records related to WrestleMania in Las Vegas for last year and this year. The case is still pending with the Clark County District Court.
Along with the subsidiaries received this year, WWE claimed in a press release that WrestleMania 42 was “one of the highest-grossing events” in company history, implying this year’s events grossed below last year’s record gates to some degree. WWE also claimed a combined attendance of 106,072 for both nights. WrestleTix estimated that there were a combined 101,652 tickets distributed across both nights.
WrestleMania 41 broke all existing pro wrestling gate records, drawing $66 million in ticket sales across two nights.